Yompai musings

Why are our wooden spoons and spatulas made from Teak wood specifically. There are a several reasons that Teak is such a wonderful wood for making kitchen utensils and cookware.

Here in NZ we are now in Autumn/Fall and while the days are still warm, the nights are growing cooler and hot foods like soups and stews become more appealing.

For these hot foods eating with wooden soup spoons offers several advantages, especially over metal spoons.

As part of the shift away from plastic and towards more natural, environmentally safe and sustainable kitchenware, wooden platters are becoming more popular.

Wooden spoons have been made in virtually every nation and have been around for a long long time.  

The earliest use of spoons dates back to prehistoric times. People used shells or chips of wood for spoons. The earliest wooden spoon we have dates back to a wooden spoon found in the Royal Tomb of the Pharoah Tutankhamun, and is estimated to be over 3300 years old.